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Charleston a half hour ago. charleston is still flooding but will flood a little less. we do have reports from charleston in the city. im around the edge of it obviously by the harbor, but in the city, we do have a good deal of flooding. we have a number of wires down. we have live wires in the water. that always becomes a concern for those in the hurricane, walk around, drive around, you get stuck in very little water. theres more than a little water in charleston and we do have live wires down...

Around and available. at what point -- i would assume at this point i still see vehicles around. are there responses under way right now or waiting for this to pass? >> so, really were waiting for this to pass. we havent received any calls for requests for rescue in mount pleasant and were very thankful for that. of course we do have our high water rescue vehicles staged throughout our municipality ready to respond to any of the needs of our citizens. so far we havent had any requests for it. an...

Theres still not a lot of place for it to go and this storm continues and gets closer to land as it pushes further north from where we are. i want to just check with our control room, steph, am i going back to you? >> yeah. i got another question for you, though. you said theres no wind right now but the gusts blow every few minutes. its too dangerous for rescues. is the wind so strong that it could actually do structural damage? >> well, i do have reports actually from charleston that there is ...

See, the winds have really picked up. i want to say what stands out the most being here is the emptiness of this place. there is one beach chair sitting there as the wind picks up but by and large the beach is empty and so is the neighborhood. this is the northern part of the outer banks as you know and normally this would be entirely packed with vacationers. yes were on the back side of the labor day holiday but still the outer banks an incredibly popular place in the off-season. we are here on...

There is a notification on my phone. 4:00 in the morning. i open the windows in my hotel, look out over the ocean because i read a report that it was out on the water, a water spout. i cant see anything out there. and that is what is so hard about these tornado warnings when they come in the middle of the night. it is terrifying and super stressful for the residents here. >> yeah, for a hundred percent of the time i know right now until were on the other side of this, i know the wind is coming i...

Or a third of our population evacuated, maybe a little more than that, and the rest have learned how to hunker down and get prepared for a storm. so we are the low country. i wouldnt say were not dealing with this. it is a number one issue for our city. thats clear. but weve certainly learned over the last four years how to prepare and respond to hurricane and water. it was mentioned, comparing this to irma, weve got more wind than we had with irma, but, frankly, we dont have quite as much flood...

Correct it. its a concept. >> al, throwing some shade there. i feel some shade you are throwing. >> no, no. just saying. what? im just saying. >> okay. all right. when you make a mistake you correct it. they corrected it. were back to a 2. >> were humans. we make mistakes. we correct them. >> all right. tell us a bit more. >> now, lets take a look. one of the things ali was talk k about, the rain, the storm surge, the wind. we also have to worry when we see these systems especially when theyre t...